![]() ![]() Last year, TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider told Armchair MBA that "no one saw" the rise of grunge coming, but he admitted that he "was already dead and semi-buried before grunge hit. IRON MAIDEN has never been bigger than right now. So, you know, music is cyclical, and people will always love rock and roll, 'cause it gets passed down through the generations. I mean, now the biggest tour in town is GUNS N' ROSES or AC/DC, who have the same singer. And there was never any video or song like that before it was a new sound, and people were responding to it. He responded: "I think I realized it when I saw the video for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'. In a 2016 interview with the Fox Business program "Kennedy", Bolan's onetime bandmate Sebastian Bach was asked when he realized that there was a "shift" taking place and how he felt about it. People started to miss bands from our era. There were some grunge bands that I liked, but it was such a different vibe and a different scene. We came back because people wanted to have fun again. So it dilutes the market and eventually just poisons it."īack in 2014, Bolan admitted to the Dallas Observer that "grunge put a lot of bands like us out of business. Every band that kind of resembled NIRVANA got signed, and they were nowhere near as good as NIRVANA. And then when grunge came out, it was the next big thing, and then it happened to them too. So that's what was kind of happening right around when grunge came out. SKID ROW bassist Rachel Bolan told Rodrigo Altaf of Sonic Perspectives about the demise of the so-called "hair metal" movement: "When a musical genre becomes just a point of sale, that's kind of the beginning of the end for the genre, 'cause they'll sign a million bands that kind of sound like a band, and then it just dilutes everything. So, I say thank you to Grunge for turning things around". I dug a lot deeper within myself from that time forward to be a better writer, performer, musician and producer. "Personally, the grunge movement helped me to work harder and try harder. "I played it for the guys and they didn't seem quite as excited about it as I was but I thought to myself - times are definitely changing, and they did very quickly! I actually loved it and immediately went out and bought the record," Michael admitted. "I'll never forget when I first heard NIRVANA. Originality and passion builds the foundation of any great artist/band. It wasn't really as intricate musically speaking but it was raw and passionate and that's what makes music appealing. ![]() ![]() I think fans were looking for something new and exciting again. I want to be fair and say not all bands but certainly many. ![]() As the 80's came to an end, 'hair metal' was for the most part cliche, some what redundant and for the most part, recycled. "When 'hair metal' exploded on the scene in the early 80's it was incredibly powerful, fresh and exciting," he continued. I think that many hair metal bands stopped trying to some degree and because of that, they started releasing mediocre music. In recent years, several other prominent 1980s hard rock musicians have weighed in on grunge's impact on the glam-rock scene, including STRYPER guitarist/vocalist Michael Sweet, who wrote in an August 2022 social media post: "I don't believe that Grunge killed hair metal. Upon release in September 1991, NIRVANA's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" wreaked confusion upon the hair metal vanguard, putting an end to an era dominated by glamorous, androgynous and sparkly rock stars who absolutely saturated the radio waves and were almost exclusively what aired on MTV. So, I don't blame it on grunge as much as I blame it on all that was going on in that era." When everyone is making the same music, using the same producers, and the same video directors, you're going to have a problem. And so, things went from being amazing to being the absolute worst very quickly. The whole world was filled with mini- MÖTLEYs and mini- RATTs, and it just got to be too much. It got to the point where people were, like, 'You have to dress this way, move this way, sing this way,' and all this fucking shit. I mean… we can claim partial ownership for the music that came out of the early '80s, but by the time the decade ended, and 'Detonator' came out, the scene was totally flooded with cookie-cutter bands. RATT vocalist Stephen Pearcy has weighed in on the never-ending debate about how the rise of grunge in the early 1990s forced most hard rock bands off the radio and MTV, with album and tour sales plummeting.Īsked in a new interview with Goldmine magazine if grunge was the deciding factor in RATT's split in 1992, Stephen said: "A lot of people think grunge had a huge impact on us, but at that point, it really had nothing to do with what happened to RATT. ![]()
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